Arthur Anthony MacDonnell

Biography

        Birthday - 11 May 1854

        Native Place - India

        Death - 28 December 1930

Education

·         Göttingen University

·         Corpus Christi College, Oxford (1876)

·         Graduated (1880)

·         University of Leipzig, Ph.D. (1883)

Scholarships -        Three scholarships from Corpus Christi College (for German, Chinese,

                                    and the Boden Scholarship for Sanskrit)                   

Working Experiences

·         Taylorian Teacher of German at Oxford

·         Deputy Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford (1888)

·         Boden Professor of Sanskrit (1899)

Fields –         Sanskrit grammar, Vedic grammar

                        Vedic Mythology

                        Sanskrit Literature

Publications (Selected)

A History of Sanskrit Literature (1900)

The Brhad-Devata Attributed to Saunaka : A Summary of the Deities and Myths of the Rgveda--Critically edited in the original Sanskrit with an introduction and seven appendices and translated into English with critical and illustrative notes (1904)

A Vedic grammar for students (1916)

History of Vedic Mythology (2004)

A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout (1929)

A Sanskrit Grammar for Students

A Vedic Reader for Students (1917)